March 15-April 27

Fotofest 2014 Biennial. FotoFest's own exhibitions for the 15^th International Biennial of Photography and Photo-related Art Biennial will focus on Contemporary Arab Video, Photography and Multi Media art. The Biennial will showcase 48 contemporary Arab artists using photography and related visual media to address a broad range of aesthetic and cultural values impacting Arab culture. FotoFest has commissioned one of the world’s leading experts on contemporary Arab art, Karin Adrian von Roques, as the principal curator. Information. The contemporary Arab art exhibitions will be accompanied by the non-thematic, biennial Discoveries of the Meeting Place exhibition of works by 11 artists selected by multiple curators from the FotoFest 2012 portfolio review. Information.

Openings and events, Tuesday, March 11-March 18

Tuesday, March 11

The SVA MPS Digital Photography presents, 7 pm: Radcliffe Roy.With nearly 27,000 followers of his Instagram account, Brooklyn-based documentary photographer Radcliffe Roye redefining the way in which photographic stories are told. 136 West 21st Street, Room 418F, NY, NY.

Wednesday, March 12

Artist talk and book signing, 6:30 pm: Matthew Pillsbury | City Stages. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27^th Street, 4^th Floor, NY, NY.Donation/$5. Information.

The ICP Lecture Series presents, 7 pm: Wangechi Mutu. The School at ICP, Shooting Studio, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Tickets/$15

Radcliffe Roye, left to right: Vanessa; Tailor; Michael and his GirlfriendSaturday, March 15

Thursday, March 13

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Alfred Leslie | New Pixel Scores, Janet Borden, Inc, 560 Broadway, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Jerome Liebling | Matter of Life and Death. Steven Kasher Galletry, 521 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Todd Hido | Excerpts From Silver Meadows. Bruce Silverstein Gallery, 535 W 24th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Michele Basora | Out of the Sea and Into the Woods. Inaugural show in new Chelsea space. Gitana Rosa Gallery, 530 W. 25th Street, 407b, New York, NY.

Opening recepton, 6-8 pm: Nick Doyle | Contemplating the Void. Galerie Protégé, 197 Ninth Avenue, NY, NY.

In San Francisco

Opening reception, 5:30-7:30: Katy Grannan | The 99. Fraenkel Gallery, 49 Geary St, 4th floor, San Francisco, CA. 

Katy Grannan, from The 99, © the artist, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery.

Friday, March 14

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Hard Times | Works by 3 Years of Fire Island Artist Residency Program Artsits. Leslie-Lohan Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, 26 Wooster Street, NY, NY. Information.

Book launch party, 6-7:30 pm: Janelle Lynch | Barcelona. International Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Information. This program coincides with ICP’s voluntary admission fee hours.

Opening day: Bill Cunningham Facades, New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, NY, NY

Opening day: Other Primary Structures. The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. Information.

The CBA History of Art Series presents, 6:30 pm: The Twentieth Century, European Avant-garde, Livres d'artistes, and the American Influence 

Jared Ash, Librarian for Special Collections, Russian, & European Languages, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Michael Russem, Proprieter, Kat Ran Press. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27^th Street, 3^rd Floor, NY, NY. Donation?$10/$5.

In Seattle Artists’ reception and urator walk-through, 5 pm: Process | featuring works by Garth Amundson/Pierre Gour (WA), Matthew Brandt (CA), Scott B. Davis (CA), Phil Chang (CA), Neal Fryett (WA), Sharon Harper (MA), Andrzej Maciejewski, (Canada), Curtis Mann (RI), Chris McCaw (CA), Kendall McMinimy (WI), Laura Plageman (CA), Charlie Rubin (NY), Meghann Riepenhoff (CA) & Brea Souders (NY), with curator Ann Pallensen. Photo Center NW, 900 12^th Avenue, Seattle, WA. Information.

Friday, March 14-Tuesday, March 18

Asia Art Fair New York. Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, NY, NY. Information.

In Boston 

Opening reception: W-O-R-D-P-L-A-Y. Panoptican Gallery, 502c Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA.

Opening day: Photo Eye: Avant Garde Photography in Europe, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA.

Wangechi Mutu. The End of Eating Everything (still), 2013. Animated video, color, sound, 8 min. Ms. Mutu is speaking at ICP on Wednesday.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Afghan Tales | 30 Afghan Photographers. Munch Gallery, 245 Broome Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception 5-7 pm: Betye Saar | Redtime EST. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 100 Eleventh Avenue, at 19^th Street, NY, NY. Information.

Opening day: Robert Heinecken | Object Matter. MoMA, 11 West 53^rd Street, NY, NY. Information.

In Los Angeles

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Hannah Whitaker | Cold Wave. M+B Gallery, 612 N Almont Drive, Los Angeles, CA.

Opening reception: Portraits of the 20^th Century. Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2525 Michigan Ave, Bergamot Station, A1, Santa Monica, CA

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Peter Alexander. Peter Blake Gallery, 435 Ocean Avenue, Laguna Beach, CA.

Sunday, March 16

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Summer Wheat | Everything Under the Sun: Moon and Stars. Pocket Utopia, 191 Henry Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 3-5 pm: Invisible Migrations | Featuring works by Alejandro Cartagena, Kursat Bayhan, Michelle Frankfurter, Francesco Giusti,Jim Goldberg, Glenna Gordon, Seba Kurtis, and Gabriele Stabile. The Alice Austen House and Museum, 2 Hylan Boulevard, Staten Island, NY.Information.

Monday, March 17

In Syracuse Opening reception, 5-7 pm: Michael Bühler-Rose New Geographics. Light Work, Syracuse University, 316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY.

In Waco, TX

Artists’ talk, 2pm, reception following: Mark Todd + Esther Pearl Watson | Explorers, in conjunction with the exhibition continuing through April 18^th. CSC Gallery, McLennan Community College Visual Arts Building, 1400 College Drive, Waco, TX. Information.


Left: Mark Todd, The Worst of Myself. Right: Esther Pearl Watson, We Spent the Gas Money.

Tuesday, March 18

Artist talk and book launch, 7-9 pm: John Cyr | Developer Trays in conversation with Lyle Rexer. powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY. RSVP. Information.

Exhibitions that opened last week

Lynn Savarese | My Still Life Aviary, Umbrella Arts, 317 East 9^th Street, New York,

Lee Backer, Lizzie Nahum-Albright, Lois Youmans, Neil Lawner, Sonia Toledo, Soho Photo, 15 White Street, NY, NY.

Travess Smalley | Compositions in Clay. Higher Pictures, 980 Madison Avenue, NY, NY.

Matthew Porter | High Difference, Invisible-Exports, 89 Eldrich Street, NY, NY.

Laurie Simmons | Kigurumi, Dollers and How We See, Salon 94 Bowery, 243 Bowery, NY, NY

Sharon Ya'ari Andrea Meislin Gallery, 534 West 24^th Street, NY, NY.

In Boston

Sandi Haber Fifield | After the Threshold, Gallery Kayafas, 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA.

In Atlanta

Abelardo Morell | Tent Camera Obscura, Jackson Fine Art, 3115 E. Shadowlawn Avenue, Atlanta, GA.

In Scottsdale

Doug & Mike Starn | Newsletter Essay,  Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ.

In Santa Monica

Dan Shepherd | Blinded by Science: Alaska/California Collection. Allan Gill Xradiography, dnj Gallery, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Santa Monica, CA.

In San Francisco

David Sokosh | American Tintypes, Robert Tat Gallery, 49 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA.

John Chiara | de-tached, Haines Gallery, 49 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA.

Critical Mass | How One Thing Leads to Another, Corden/Potts Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

In Portland

Lucy Capehart Remnants. f&d cartier Wait and See, Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland. WA.

Jason Langer | Possession, Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8^th Street, Portland, March 5